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Crossroads for Intel

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the road-ahead dept.

pillageplunder writes "Businessweek offers a pretty balanced read on what challenges Intel faces in the upcoming year. Rivals Samsung and AMD are making inroads on Intels core businesses, an expected cyclical industry downturn looms next year, and with several critical delays in new (for Intel) markets puts its strategy at risk. A neat read."

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  1. Hmmmm by antifoidulus · · Score: 5, Insightful

    problems at Intel, problems at Microsoft. Could it be that some companies just get too big for their own good?
    Happened to other comanies, just look at US Steel, in 1918 they represented 3% of the GDP of the US, but they got too big, and eventually competetitors, both at home and abroad ate up most of that.

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    Monstar L
    1. Re:Hmmmm by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Not really comperable. Steel is a generic product where there's little brand loyalty, and essentially no product differentiation. Microsoft and Intel, on the other hand, make products that no one can make directly--you can compete with similar products, but some shop in Taiwan can't turn out Pentium IV's.

  2. Still... by StevenHenderson · · Score: 4, Insightful

    As long as Dell is almost exclusively Intel, then they ought to be just fine. It is Intel's exclusivity agreements that will sustain them in times like these, I'd wager. (Yes, I know Intel's problems aren't just in the desktop market, but I like to over-generalize).

  3. x86 architecture still alive thanks to AMD. by MtViewGuy · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Actually, the x86 CPU architecture is still alive thanks to a company called AMD. :-)

    AMD's groundbreaking Athlon CPU core is far superior to what Intel has, and the Athlon XP showed that you don't need ridiculous clock speeds to get superior overall CPU performance, thanks to the the combination of the very efficient Athlon CPU core and generous on-die L1/L2 CPU memory caches. AMD's decision to put the memory controller onto the CPU die with the Opteron/Athlon 64 CPU's also demonstrates how to get superior CPU performance without running high CPU clock speeds like Intel needs to do with the Pentium 4 CPU's.